The Cream Separator

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 6, 13 November 1931, Page 2

The Cream Separator

Only 192 tons of kauri gum was received in Auckland during October, the lowest monthly return since January. According to an official return less than 2 h percent of the pupils in our secondary schools pay fees. Beer is the last thing to suffer from depression and heavy taxation. A Wairarapa brewery has declared its usual dividend of ten percent. “My policy is not to make good roads better, but to make bad roads good.”—Cr. Wrathall to the Mangonui County Council. To enable them to celebrate Christmas men employed under the No. 5 scheme will be stood down for a week —without any pay, of course. The Auckland Railways and Development League has decided to wind up, its work accomplished and its labours ended. A special meeting of the Bay of Islands Harbour Board, followed by an ordinary meeting, will be held at the Board’s office, Opua, on Monday, 30th November, 1931, at 11 a.m. The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand held last week a self-denial week to raise funds to balance the budget of the General Assembly, which shows a deficit this year. Pleading for an Auckland elderly married woman charged with shoplifting, her lawyer stated her thefts were owing to “a childish vanity.” The magistrate thought three months’ imprisonment the only cure. When does a girl become a woman? It is announced two girls on the High Commissioner’s staff in London have retired on superannuation, having qualified with the necessary years’ service. The proprietor of an Auckland cabaret was fined £4O for allowing drinking to take place there on a Sunday morning. The evidence showed that drinking was common, and young girls were seen under the influence of liquor. The Marine Department, which two years ago received £13,961 from a royalty of 2/6 a barrel on oil from whales caught in territorial waters, received last year only £2 10/ from that source. The whale oil market is glutted, though margarine is made from it. A Christchurch girl had the unfortunate experience of having most of her trousseau stolen within a few days of her wedding. She had left her home for a few hours on Saturday evening to find on her return that most of her wedding outfit, which was of considerable value, gone.